[Click] Timers

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Martin,

Click timers can be initialized dynamically.  I don't think there's anything 
special required... just create them at run time.

Eddie


Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am working on Multicast elements and have a question regarding timers.
> 
> PIM-SM (RFC2362) specifies a Neighbor-Timer (a neighbor is another PIM 
> capable router). A Neighbor-Timer for each neighbor is used to time out 
> the neighbor state.
> 
> Is there a way to initialize Click timers dynamically? At startup the 
> router does not know how many neighbors there will be.
> 
> I thought about using gettimeofday() and storing a time value in the 
> vector containing the neighbors. A timer that has been initialized at 
> router startup could periodically check the vector if some timers 
> expired and take out appropriate actions.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a nice way to solve my problem. Any other ideas 
> are highly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
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